Batter-runner overruns 1st base, makes an "attempt" to go to 2nd....

Stevetheump

CecilOne wrote
More proof that
1) They never get their heads out of LL
2) They watch too much football and baseball TV doesn't help
3) Most only learn half a rule

4)With today's schools, they can't count to three.

Well said, Cecil. I had a coach who told me a couple years ago that the (ASA SP) "strike zone" was from "the batter's FRONT shoulder to the BACK knee." Try visualizing that. I told him it was from the "BACK shoulder to the FRONT knee." He was certain HE was right. So, after the game, I broke out the rule book, looked up its' definition and let HIM read it. He was dumbfounded.

NCASAUmp

Stevetheump wrote
Well said, Cecil. I had a coach who told me a couple years ago that the (ASA SP) "strike zone" was from "the batter's FRONT shoulder to the BACK knee." Try visualizing that. I told him it was from the "BACK shoulder to the FRONT knee." He was certain HE was right. So, after the game, I broke out the rule book, looked up its' definition and let HIM read it. He was dumbfounded.

I may be mistaken, but that may be the old U-Trip rule. I haven't called U-Trip in well over a decade, but I seem to remember doing a double-take when reading their definition of the strike zone in the book.

CecilOne

NCASAUmp wrote
I may be mistaken, but that may be the old U-Trip rule. I haven't called U-Trip in well over a decade, but I seem to remember doing a double-take when reading their definition of the strike zone in the book.

Please clarify in posts like this that you are referring to slow pitch rules. 🙁

Skahtboi

NCASAUmp wrote
I may be mistaken, but that may be the old U-Trip rule. I haven't called U-Trip in well over a decade, but I seem to remember doing a double-take when reading their definition of the strike zone in the book.

Nope...the old USSSA Slo-Pitch rule read "front knee to back shoulder." I was actually calling both USSSA and SP in those days.

CecilOne

Skahtboi wrote
Slo-Pitch .

😀 😎

NCASAUmp

CecilOne wrote
Please clarify in posts like this that you are referring to slow pitch rules. 🙁

Quoting a guy talking about SP rules wasn't obvious enough? 🙂

Skahtboi

CecilOne wrote
😃 :cool:

I see you got my humor, or lack thereof! 🙂

CecilOne

NCASAUmp wrote
Quoting a guy talking about SP rules wasn't obvious enough? 🙂

As long as everyone reads the quote and reads it carefully enough to see the little "SP", ok. 😉

Just being sure no one thinks we USSSA Fast Pitch umpires are that confused, because USSSA Fast Pitch organizationally is quite different than U-trip SP. 🙂

Skahtboi

CecilOne wrote
As long as everyone reads the quote and reads it carefully enough to see the little "SP", ok. 😉

Just being sure no one thinks we USSSA Fast Pitch umpires are that confused, because USSSA Fast Pitch organizationally is quite different than U-trip SP. 🙂

I can remember a time when they were one and the same. My first USSSA UIC for this area was strictly a SP guy! (So was most of the state organization at that time!)

Little Jimmy

Way to represent Utrip fastpitch in our area Cecil.🙂

CecilOne

Little Jimmy wrote
Way to represent Utrip fastpitch in our area Cecil.🙂

And notice I use USSSA and not the slang and often derogatory u-trip. 😛
See you on the 2nd.

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